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Article: UCLA's Daisy Day aims to end trafficking of women
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- March 8, 2001
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Erin Inada
University Wire
03-08-2001
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- Each year an estimated 4 million people are trafficked internationally for prostitution, servitude and forced labor, with 70,000 brought into the United States. Women and children constitute 50,000 of them.
Mounting concern over the issue has led organizers of University of California at Los Angeles' second annual Daisy Day to focus its efforts on putting an end to such solicitations. This year's theme is "A Campaign to End the Trafficking of Women."
Sponsored by the Office of Residential Life, Intercultural Programming Committee, UCLA Clothesline Project, the Undergraduate Students Association Council External ...